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“Look this way Tara Over here Tara” She turned this way and that like a puppet on a string as flashbulbs went crazy with each turn The dress she wore didn't leave uess that's all part of the ie

She wore an engaging smile but I could see the strain on her face and the barely hidden tension in her body Shea script, like souessing she wasn’t too fond of this part of her job

I walked a few paces back as usual and let her do her thing, my eyes peeled to the crowd, erous aspect of the job, her out in the open like this with so many unknowns in the vicinity; at least it had been until a day or two ago

That my friend is when I lost ht er whose skin I now findaround in Days later I still can’tif not flexible

I’h My life is too structured for that But I have to say that for the first tiet under my skin, and I’ed when he least expects it for fuck sake

I feel listless and out of control, like so else is at the helm For a man like me, a former marine accusto withon my heart

I never give that shit a second thought, except when it coine when the shit sparked for no fucking reason, like someone took an electric shock to it, the fuckery damn near stopped me in my tracks

I knen to the fucking minute it happened, and why And had I been a damn female, I would’ve written the shit down sos they tend to want to remember, down to the date and ti, memo or not

Since I’irl and wasn’t built that way, I stored the shit to etting Who can forget the ed for fuck sake? The shit that’s plaguing ht the good fight and put an end to this shit before it goes too far?

The shit has been onover all aspects of my life ‘She’ has taken over my well structured world and turned it to shit A little slip of a girl who never speaks above a whisper, and who’s so far outside the norm of my ideal that it’s hard to fatho

I didn’t give anything away though as I kept a professional distance while she gave this crowd of vultures what they wanted When the strain was starting to show in the slight tre only I could see because I was so intensely focused on her, I ot her out of there

She didn’t argue, not even when I kept laring lights to the safety of the car I had utful of tension but for entirely different reasons, at least I thought they were But for all I know she could be suffering the same fate as I

I’ve been on her for a couple weeks now Her handlers had been the ones to hire me; well not uys were already out on other jobs so I took the bait Fucking fate I guess, and even I know that no matter how bad a motherfucker is, he can’t fuck with fate

It was the first time since I’d started the coh demand all of a sudden because of a job we’d handled six months earlier Up until then we h that we didn’t need more than a few jobs a year to keep the business afloat

But after that job ent into a foreign country to bring back the socialite daughter of aGobi desert, shit blew up and ere still trying to figure out what the fuck